I just want to thank all of the persons responsible for portraying the Soviet Union in film and literature. The ABC made for television movie, The Day After, airing in 1983. It scared the bejeezes out of everyone in America, showing a nuclear war that erupts between the U.S. and Russia. Invasion U.S.A, 1952, portrays a Communist invasion of America. Red Dawn, 1984, depicts another invasion by Russia but also central American countries as well. Amerika, 1987, an ABC mini-series is set in 1997, ten years into the Soviet occupation of the United States. From Russia With Love, 1963, James Bond out smarts the communists and gets the girl. The Hunt For Red October, 1990, a captain of a Soviet submarine defects to the United States. Red Heat, 1988, Arnold Schwarzenegger is a Soviet police officer hunting a suspect in America. The Life and Death of Lenin,by Robert Payne, The Russian Revolution, by Sheila Fitzpatrick, The Development of Capitalism in Russia, Imperialism, the Highest State of Capitalism, and The State and Revolution, all by Vladimir Lenin.
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